The race may already be lost, but still.

Meme about 5-Star Product ratings. Text: This scheme doesn't help anyone: Very bad, Bad, Almost ok, ok, Good. Use this instead: Bad, Some Issues, ok, Good, Exceptionall
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This doesn’t work unless everybody agrees to use it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Correct.

    With most things, like Ubers for example, there really is not a substantial dofference between an average job and an exceptional job. Like, sometimes someone really stands out as exceptional - but almost always, the one and only standard is "completed job without incident". By giving your Uber driver 4/5 stars because they didn't offer you bottled water or whatever, all you are doing is punishing some random person who did a perfectly fine job, possibly significantly impacting their ability to make money and pay their rent.

    What should really happen is that these companies switch to a one star system. 1 star = completed job without major incidents. 0 stars = major incident.

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